Stewart Brand (above), the creator of the famed Whole Earth Catalog and a native of our town, ARGUES in the current issue of National Geographic News that the human race should avail itself of the opportunity to revive certain extinct species of animals:

Many extinct species—from the passenger pigeon to the woolly mammoth—might now be reclassified as “bodily, but not genetically, extinct.” They’re dead, but their DNA is recoverable from museum specimens and fossils, even those up to 200,000 years old.

Thanks to new developments in genetic technology, that DNA may eventually bring the animals back to life. Only species ...